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> Everyone would have preferred a clear "you're in / you're out" email at a fixed time like it's been done at Facebook Ha, at Facebook people have been complai
by Shish2k 4y ago
> Everyone would have preferred a clear "you're in / you're out" email at a fixed time like it's been done at Facebook
Ha, at Facebook people have been complaining that they only learned at the last-minute and only thanks to leaks, saying they would have preferred a longer-term heads-up so that they could start preparing and avoid making long-term commitments (eg that guy who was laid off one day after moving his whole life from India to the USA)
I suspect that there’s actually no great win/win way of doing mass layoffs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThe thing is that it's the same here. I saw a LinkedIn post from a guy at Amazon that got layed off 2 days after joining as well. The difference is that not only you get no notice, you actually don't know when the wave of layoffs is done and when you can take a break from worrying.
- pm90 4y agoCEO of Meta had been warning for months that there would be a freeze and possibly layoffs, unlike other firms that were promising "no layoffs". The people I know that worked at Meta all started interview prepping after those announcements. It should not have come as a surprise.
- Macha 4y agoIt's not a dichotomy between "no layoffs, no layoffs, please leave the building and never come back" and "There maybe will be layoffs but we can't tell you if you're in them or not" - in both cases the problem is the lack of knowledge. The company could also just give workers notice. Works fine here in Europe.